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Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott & MLK...
Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott & MLK...
Item # 724781
March 20, 1956
THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 20, 1956
* re. Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
* 27 year old Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1960's Civil Rights movement in it's infancy
The front page has a one column heading: "FIRST NEGRO TRIED IN BUS BOYCOTTING" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with all 52 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
background: The trial of Martin Luther King Jr., which began on March 19, 1956, served as a dramatic attempt by Alabama authorities to decapitate the leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott through legal intimidation. Charged under an anti-conspiracy statute originally intended to break labor unions, King stood as the first of 89 defendants to face a courtroom that many expected to be hostile. However, the proceedings backfired on the segregationist establishment; rather than crushing the spirit of the protest, the trial provided a global megaphone for the movement's philosophy of nonviolent resistance. King’s defense team masterfully turned the trial into a moral inquiry, presenting testimony from Black citizens who recounted decades of systemic abuse and humiliation on city buses. Though Judge Eugene Carter ultimately found King guilty, the conviction only served to galvanize the local community and transform a 27-year-old local minister into a world-renowned symbol of civil rights, proving that the momentum of the boycott was far too significant to be halted by a courtroom verdict.
Category: The 20th Century
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